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The Air-Permit Shop That Learned to Buy the Whole Weather System
Trinity Consultants spent three decades mastering the invisible work of air compliance. Then it discovered that the fastest route to a global engineering platform was to keep buying small firms that knew one difficult thing exceptionally well.
The Firm That Brings a Biologist to the Public Meeting
Hollaway built an unusual consultancy around a simple observation: the science can be right and the room can still be lost. Its answer is to put field scientists, planners, communicators, and designers on the same side of the table.
The Company That Gets Paid to Make Everyone Else Speak
For four decades, Kearns & West has worked in the room where public projects get stuck - turning rival interests, technical evidence, and civic distrust into a process people can keep using.
Circlepoint knows a better project starts with a better conversation
An environmental report and a neighborhood conversation rarely speak the same language. Circlepoint has built a consulting business around getting them into the same room.
Better World Group and the work after the handshake
A climate agreement can take years to reach the ground. Better World Group makes a business of the coalitions, public meetings, and follow-through that help it get there.
Daryl Hancock Spent 25 Years Making Invisible Risks Visible
Before RMEC joined a global compliance group, it began with four partners, a handful of clients and one founder working full-time. Daryl Hancock turned that unglamorous beginning into a 25-year study in making risk legible.
How a Florida Archaeology Firm Became Big Energy's First Phone Call
SEARCH turned a federal compliance requirement into the largest cultural-resources firm in America - and helped find Shackleton's Endurance along the way.
The 24-Person Environmental Firm That Turned Regulatory Headaches Into a 25-Year Business
RMEC built a durable consultancy by doing the unglamorous work that keeps property deals moving, workers healthy and regulators satisfied. Then a global testing group came shopping.
Eric Faurot
Eric Faurot is the long-serving CEO of Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz Group), a B2B media company headquartered in Oakland, California that runs flagship sustainability conferences including VERGE, BLOOM, GreenFin, and Circularity. Over 14 years at the helm, he built GreenBiz into a leading platform for sustainability professionals - combining editorial media, peer networks, and live events - before transitioning to a Growth Leader role in July 2024 when Hana Kajimura succeeded him as CEO. His career traces an arc from tech media event production (COMDEX, INTEROP, Black Hat) to climate and sustainability, making him a rare figure who bridged Silicon Valley-era conference culture with the emerging sustainability economy.
Woodard & Curran
Woodard & Curran is a 100% employee-owned environmental engineering and consulting firm founded in 1979 and headquartered in Portland, Maine. With roughly 1,300 employees across 30+ offices in 14 states, the firm integrates engineering, science, design-build, and operations to solve complex water and environmental challenges for municipal, industrial, and government clients. From treating 11.7 billion gallons of drinking water annually to cleaning up Superfund contamination sites, Woodard & Curran positions itself as the firm that takes on the hard problems in water infrastructure and environmental health — not as a contractor but as a long-term partner.
Alyson Watson
Alyson Watson is the CEO and Chair of the Board of Woodard & Curran, a Portland, Maine-based integrated science, engineering, design-build, and operations firm specializing in water and environmental challenges. A Stanford-trained chemical engineer and licensed PE, she became the firm's third CEO in 2021 — and its first woman to hold that title — after more than 20 years leading water resources projects and building environmental consulting teams across the western United States. A self-described 'water brat' with roots in the industry, Watson is a passionate advocate for clean water access, outcome-based contracting, and employee ownership, guiding a firm of 1,300 people across 27 offices nationwide.